Citas/Quotes

"La música es sinónimo de libertad, de tocar lo que quieras y como quieras, siempre que sea bueno y tenga pasión. Que la música sea el alimento del amor.""Music is synonym of freedom, of playing what you want and how you want, as long as it's good and made with passion. Let music be love's food."Kurt Cobain (1967-1994)

Spanish singer Macaco says that "all the major developments of humanity were achieved gradually, but if you look back through history there is always a particular time, a fuse that ignites everything and provokes dramatic changes. I do not know when it will happen but I guess that it will not be too long. It will be painful, but positive. "I couldn't agree more. Personally, I doubt that a movement like Occupy the Streets will be the cause of that change, because such movement is more a consequence than a cause, it is a symptom of the decline of a system that is no longer sustainable. But we do the right thing when we speak out, complain and get outraged, because with this strong citizen stance, at least, we make it totter and shake. I think that when something is rotten, the woodworm colony has already set a date to its death, it all depends on the voracity of the worms. In the words of Eduardo Salceda, a great guy I met on a recent trip to Bucharest, "revolutions only get rid of what no longer exists." So, adding a last remark to Macaco's quote, when the fuse is on fire it will be signal that the system has self-destructed.

Although it is said that every revolution has its soundtrack, I'd rather think that the soundtrack of a revolution is one, only the tune and the singer change with the times. But the message is the same, no matter how many stanzas and verses it consists of, whether it is end rhyme or blank verse, all variations on the same topic. I guess Pete Seeger's We Shall Overcome or Bob Marley's Redemption Song, to name but a few, would had just been of good use for the people of Paris that took Versailles, the Berliners who hammered their wall down or the Egyptians at Tahrir Square. But we need new songs that highlight what is really happening, and connect with the anger around or, as in the case at hand, with fury.

The Madrid band Les Vivo (here's my review of its outstanding second album) present rather bold lyrics in Esclavo (Slave). Whoever wants to see incitement to violence in it, fair enough, but then I think they haven't understood anything at all. While we accept the official version that the movement of the angry ones is a peaceful citizen response, based on civic values, we are ignoring that what has caused this response are acts of extreme violence. The fact that there has been no blood does not mean the situation is not without brutality. Evictions, bank scams, the sentences of some juries, the waste of obscene amounts of taxpayers' money, the privileges of the political class, the cuts in basic services and a dreadful number of other instances have led us to cry, enough! So far, we have accepted the demonstrations and and assemblies. But how long will this pacific movement of the angry ones take to become the movement of the desperate ones? What will desperate people who have nothing more to lose be ready to do? How do you think that a slave becomes a free citizen if not with violence? The song is precisely about the subject of the irrational violence that is caused by total despair. When someone reaches such point, either he handles a gun himself, or he votes for someone else who will smash windows around for him. Just ask the Greeks.

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